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Keith Kristiansen becomes honorary Farmington Rotarian
Keith Kristiansen was a member of Farmington Rotary for many years until life and work pulled him away. Yet Keith has continued to support our club by volunteering with us and is an important member of the logistics team for Ramble Jam. Therefore, your board of directors voted to make Keith an honorary member of Farmington Rotary at the Jan. 16 board meeting.
 
Please welcome Keith if you see him, and introduce yourself if you don't know him. He may not make many meetings due to his work schedule, but you'll certainly see him at club activities.
 
We're excited to officially have Keith back!
Jan. 18 meeting: Transformational Life Coaching
Bring a guest to our Jan. 18 meeting and kick off 2018 with an inspirational jolt that sets you on the path to success this year. Nada Hogan is a DreamBuilders Life Coach and a nationally certified acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner. Nada will help us discover the critical ingredients for extraordinary, consistent success, and how we can transform our dreams into reality. 
Jan. 25 meeting: Junior Achievement
Established in 1949, Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest serves greater Minnesota, North Dakota and western Wisconsin, where innovative programs are taught in more than 700 schools by nearly 10,000 volunteers. Through age-appropriate curricula, Junior Achievement  prepares students for their future and teaches them how to succeed in the global economy.

Karyn Thompson, community partnership director for JAUM, speaks to us on Jan. 25 about JA BizTown, an innovative program that provides students with experience in a simulated free market lab where they become adults for a day. By working in one of 15 JA BizTown shops, students learn what it takes to run a successful business and understand the relationship between what they learn in school and their successful participation in a global economy.
 
JAUM currently provides programs in Farmington's elementary schools and wants to expand into our middle schools and high school. Join us on Jan. 25 at noon at Celt's in downtown Farmington. Guests are always welcome.
Help needed for Community EXPO Jan. 27
The Farmington Community EXPO is Sat., Jan. 27 at Farmington High School from 9 a.m. to noon. Farmington Rotary will exhibit at the EXPO and we could use at least one more Rotarian to help in our booth. So far, only Lori has offered to help. Please consider volunteering if you aren't already there on behalf of your own business. The EXPO gives our club the opportunity to promote our projects, membership and Ramble Jam.
Contact Linda if you can volunteer that morning. And thanks for all you do for Rotary.
Attend Rotary and win $50!
Here's all you have to do: attend four Rotary meetings each month.
 
Really? That's it?
 
Yep. Attend four Rotary meetings a month and your name will be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift card to Bourbon Butcher. If you attend more than four meetings in the month, you will get an extra entry in the drawing.
 
You may ask yourself, "Self? How can I attend more than four meetings a month?" Remember that committee and board meetings count toward attendance. So if you attend three weekly meetings, one Ramble Jam meeting and a board meeting in a four-week month, that's five meetings and your name will be entered twice into the drawing for that month.
 
Now, no one has told me this, but I assume for months that have five weekly meetings you would need to attend six meetings to get an extra entry – or five meetings to get one entry – but that is only speculation on my part. Sometimes I do that – I speculate. And sometimes I'm right. And other times? Well, occasionally I'm wrong. But don't tell Paul I said that.
Final 2017 donations report
It's such good news I'm going to keep this in The Source. I'm the editor, so I get to do that. When I'm no longer the editor, if you step up to the plate and volunteer for the job then you get to decide what makes the newsletter and what doesn't. But for now, I have that power. And I intend to keep reminding all of us that Farmington Rotary donated more than $58,000 last year to programs and projects that change lives and make a difference. See a detailed report here.
 
Thank you for your support of Farmington Rotary. Please know that your efforts matter to those we serve.
Spring conference
The spring Conference of Clubs (formerly known as the District Conference) will be held on Thursday and Friday, April 19-20, at the new Mystic Conference Center, part of the Mystic Lake Hotel and Casino complex, in Prior Lake. See attached brochure for more information on what is planned.
Meeting hosts
Barb and Linda are handling meeting-host duties for February. Then March blows in with the dynamic duo of Don and Jenna.
 
Meeting hosts are responsible for the following:
  • Scheduling speakers for their month
  • Arriving early to set up
  • Giving the meal count to the kitchen
  • Staying late to take down
Meeting hosts for the year are listed in The Source each week. Please review the meeting host responsibilities for complete details. Contact Janie if you have questions.

Calendar of Events

Weekly club meetings
Thursdays, 12 noon, Celt's Pub, Farmington

Jan. 18 - Nada Hogan, Dream Builder Coach
Jan. 25 - Junior Achievement
Feb. 1 - Students of the Month
Feb. 8 - Aaron Brand, Brand Farms & Orchards
Feb. 15 - Club assembly
Feb. 22 - Scott Arcand, Minn. Dept. of Health

Ramble Jam committee meeting
Jan. 17
8:30 a.m. at Farmington City Hall

Farmington Rotary Club board meeting
Tues., Feb. 20
12 noon at Bourbon Butcher, Farmington

Meeting hosts schedule
July: Anika & Janie

Aug: Corey & Melissa
Sept: Shannon & Amanda
Oct: David & Lisa
Nov: Dana & Rachelle
Dec: Sara & Lori
Jan: Heidi & Leshia
Feb: Barb & Linda
Mar: Steve, Don & Jenna
Apr: Jay & Tom
May: Annie & Kyle
June: Jamie & Nathan L.

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